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Five Steps to an Organized (and Joyful) Holiday Season

Carolyn Rubenstein | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Organizing, Holiday Season, Living News, Perseverance, Overwhelm, Living, Carolyn Rubenstein, Aby Garvey, Huffington Post, simplify101, Holiday Planning, Holidays, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Living News
Carolyn Rubenstein

If you're already feeling stretched thin (and not feeling too joyful about it), then it's time to step back and use a few organizing strategies to make a new plan.

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10 Signs You Have Gone Overboard Organizing

Karen Leland | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Cleaning, Featured Contributor, Productivity, Organization, Friendship, Family Time, Organizing, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Simplifying-Life, Cleaning Clutter, Housecleaning, Closets, Living News
Karen Leland

My declaration for what little time is left of summer is to spend less time sorting and more time being with family and friends, reading and lying out in sun.

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Organizing for America, Obama's Sleeping Beast, Starts to Awaken

Micah Sifry | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Organizing, Obama, Health Care, Swing States, Organizing for America, Politics News
Micah Sifry

It looks like Organizing for America, President Obama's de facto field organization based at the DNC, is ramping up its efforts to demonstrate support for health care reform.

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Six Summer Strategies For Busy Moms

Karen Leland | Posted 07.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Organizing, Moms, Summer, Time Management, Working Moms, Success, Work Life Balance, Work, Careers, Parenting, The Balanced Life, Family, Happiness, Living News
Karen Leland

Now that the kids are out of school and summer is just peaking around the corner, busy moms need to find a way to manage themselves and their brood. ...

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Zero Out Your Email Inbox...Really!

Karen Leland | Posted 05.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Email, Organizing, Spring Clean, Computers, Empty Inbox, Organize Your Email, Clean Out Your Inbox, Living News
Karen Leland

Welcome to the third and final post in the series on how to Simplify Your Online Life. If you're just joining us and missed the past two posts, you ca...

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Three Steps To Declutter Your Computer

Karen Leland | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Organizing, The Balanced Life, De-Cluttering, Featured Contributor, Computers, Online, Email, Spring Cleaning, Cleaning Clutter, Cleaning, Clutter, Living News
Karen Leland

My computer had become the junk drawer of my electronic life.

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Spring Clean Your Closet in Four Easy Steps

Karen Leland | Posted 04.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Spring Cleaning, Spring, Organizing, Clothes, Closets, The Balanced Life, Living News
Karen Leland

In a few days the vernal equinox will rear its well-organized head and instead of being made to feel like a compulsive neat freak, I can spring-clean with societal approval and encouragement.

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A Fairness Issue

Jim Wallis | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Market, CEO Pay, Bob Casey, Dignity, Wages, Employee Free Choice Act, Workers, Wage, USCCB, Compromise, Employee, Business, St Augustine, Economic, Human Dignity, Organizing, Employer Relations, Common Good, Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee, Ceos, Justice, Union, Pope John Paul II, Catholic Bishops, Catholic, Economy, Politics News
Jim Wallis

"Without justice, what are kingdoms but bands of robbers?" - St Augustine. I was surprised when Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) opened up his remarks before ...

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Time Running Out For Filipino Veterans

Jonah Lalas | Posted 04.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Justice for Filipino Veterans, Garment Workers, Pilipino, Organizing, Filipinos, Nurses, Filipino Veterans, Labor, Glass Ceiling, Asian Americans, Breaking Politics News, Barack Obama Asians, World War II Veterans, Asian-American Vote, Labor Unions, Reparations, Bataan Death March, Mang Peping, Manong Peping, Bataan, Fasgi, Home News
Jonah Lalas

Many thousands of Filipinos answered Roosevelt's call to join the U.S. forces fighting Japan in the Philippines, but had been denied the benefits they were promised until last month.

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A Victory for the Asian-American Community

Jonah Lalas | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pilipino, Hotel Janitors, Survivor, Employee Free Choice Act, Nurses, Asian Americans, Glass Ceiling, Garment Workers, Labor Unions, Asian-American Vote, Labor, Organizing, 80-20, Filipinos, Justice for Filipino Veterans, Barack Obama Asians, World War II Veterans, Unions, 80-20-Initiative, Piyush Jindal, Bobby Jindal, The Philippines, Politics News
Jonah Lalas

The Filipino veterans have received their due, but Asian workers have not. It is up Asian activists to continue to educate and politicize our youth.

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Alinsky's Legacy, Obama and Labor's Challenge

Jonah Lalas | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Saul Alinsky, Social Justice, Organizing, Change, Labor, Employee Free Choice Act, Community Organizing, Obama, Unions, Social Activism, Union, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jonah Lalas

Until Obama, I had always viewed the White House as synonymous with "the boss" or the "management" of a facility who instills fear into workers when they try to organize.

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A Labor Secretary Who is Actually Pro-Union

Jonah Lalas | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Organizing, Labor, Employee Free Chioce Act, Hilda Solis, Seiu, Secretary of Labor, Obama, Unions, Union, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News
Jonah Lalas

Once the employer realizes his/her employees are willing to stand up for better pay, more affordable healthcare, and better working conditions by forming a union, they begin to fight.

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So What Did You Do Today?

Heather Cabot | Posted 01.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Balancing Work and Family, Achievements, Organizing, Being a Mom, Responsibility, Children, Balancing Your Life, To-Do Lists, Life Coach, Motherhood, Prioritizing, Mothering Advice, Organization, Living News
Heather Cabot

Until I had my children, I never really appreciated what it felt like to get to dinnertime and wonder what you really accomplished that day -- yet feel exhausted.

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A Tribute to Generation O

Rick Ayers | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Organizing, Organizing, Barack Obama, Generation Obama, Youth Vote, Obama Youth Vote, Politics News
Rick Ayers

The youth movement, the youth uprising, that was the Obama base campaign was something much greater, much more significant than even Obama himself.

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How Obama Will Make Bill Clinton A Sage

Bart Motes | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Field Organizing, Organizing, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News
Bart Motes

Bill Clinton said today that Barack Obama will win the Presidency and he will win "pretty handily." Can we believe him? Yes we can. McCain's dirty, ...

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GOP Mocks Public Service

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Giuliani Rnc, Gop, Organizer, Organizing, Republican Convention, Home News
Peter Dreier

For the first time in American history, a major political party devoted a substantial portion of its national convention to attacking grassroots organizing. Those attacks reflected a longstanding tradition in American politics -- the conservative elite's fear of "the people."

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Heading "Out of Doors" for Obama

Adam Lioz | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Organizing, Progressive, Action, Barack Obama, Election, Volunteer, Politics News
Adam Lioz

The progressive online community has added real value over the past few years--bringing progressives together in a common (if virtual) space, holding ...

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Another Fine Mess

Jerry Zezima | Posted 09.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Humor, Messes, Lottery, Organizing, Housecleaning, Cleaning Clutter, Clutter, Living News
Jerry Zezima

My life is such a mess that if I ever won the lottery, I'd never collect the money. Either my wife would inadvertently toss the ticket in the garbage or I would put it somewhere in the house and never find it again.

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Obama Network Organizes and Revolts Over Spying

Ari Melber | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mybo, Organizing, Warrantless Surveillance, Meetup, Ohio, Surveillance, Spying, Fisa, Barack Obama, Technoloy, Politics News
Ari Melber

Barack Obama tapped his sizeable grassroots network on Saturday, coordinating over 4,000 "Unite for Change" meetups across the country through the cam...

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